Home Sweet Home

Whenever I first came into Shane's house (my soon to be house) I will admitt I was a bit worried. At the time it wasn't the cleaniest place. It was a bachelor pad afterall. And there were many things in the house that needed some updating. Like the kitchen. It even had the same mustard yellow appliances from when it was first built back in the day. But luckily I have one of the handiest husbands ever. He and his family put in new tile. Yes, you heard me right. SHANE put in the tile. He is amazing. I told you he was handy! He also painted, put in new countertops and new appliances in the kitchen.We did hire someone to redo the cabinets. With a little updating, cleaning and decorating our little house had been transformed! I just wish I had some before pictures so you can see the difference! But here it is....our humble abode.

Dining Room

New and improved kitchen! Probably my favorite room of the house!

 The living room

Master Bedroom

Spare Bedroom #1

 Those curtains cover the closet

Spare bedroom #2 ... This room is still somewhat bare. But it is better than nothing!

 Our cute little porch! I love this!



I love our house for many reasons. One because I feel that is it very "homie." But the thing that I love the most about it, is that it is OUR home.

I love my life.

I'm BACK!!

So it dawned on me today....I HAVE A BLOG.

Kidding, I didn't forget my precious blog. Well, maybe I sorta did. The truth is I have be so consumed with my wonderful life I have not found the time to update this thing. I guess that is a pretty good excuse right? The more time that passed the more I realized how long of a post this is going to have to be cover everything that has been going on and that gave me anxiety so I have been putting it off....till now! So here is my life update of the last 4 months.

January and February were filled with lots of Sing Song practices and wedding shower extravaganzas. My roommate, Rachel was the director of our club act for Sing Song and two of my other roommates, Kylah and Amy did the costumes. So you can just imagine how crazy our house was. But it was well worth it. We were popcorn and let me just tell you....our show just really "popped" :) Pun intended. Seriously though. It was amazing. Rachel couldn't have done a better job and did I mention we WON? Yeah, that was pretty sweet too.

and if you would like to see the video of our act...here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntsgpCehevk&feature=related

My wonderful shower in San Antonio.

February was an especially good month for my roomie Rachel. She and Bailey got engaged!!

My wedding shower in Abilene!

My Lingerie shower that my sweet friends threw for me!

My sister Marci threw my Bachelorette weekend in Dallas!

And On March 13, 2011 I became the happiest girl in the world when I married my best friend. Our wedding day could not of been more perfect. The weather was beautiful, the plantation house was beautiful and we were surrounded by wonderful people. I couldn't have asked for a more amazing day!

Then we were off to our Honeymoon in the fabulous St. Lucia! It was absolutely amazing! Every time I think about it I just want to be back there! Hopefully someday we can go back :)

Shortly after we returned to the real world in Abilene, I ran my first 5k. Okay, I know for most runners this seems like nothing, but for someone who is just getting into the running thing, it was a BIG deal! I loved running the 5k and hope to run more soon, and maybe... MAYBE someday I will run a half-marathon? We'll see....

I hosted my very first shower, Erin's Lingerie shower! This made me feel like a grown up! haha

For Easter we went camping with the Haught family. Such a fun and relaxing weekend!

At the end of April, one of my other roomies Amy got engaged! Love has just been in the air :)

And just this past weekend, I graduated from ACU! Wow, never thought I'd see the day! But really, I think it is finally starting to hit me that I am done with school..forever. It's very surreal.

Wow, so it has been a crazy and incredible last 4 months. No wonder I have not been able to keep up with this. Now, on to the next part of my life! This past week I recieved a call that offered me the position of being the Nutrionist for the bean at ACU.  I am so excited for this! Not only is it a REAL job, but it is a job in my field! I am not sure when I will be starting, we are still working out the logistics. But I feel so blessed to be given this opportunity.

Hopefully now I will have more time to keep up with this!

until next time, xoxoxo



Wedding Anxiety....is there medicine for this?

So here I am still up, not sleeping once again. This has become a nightly occurance for me and I am not happy about it. I believe that I am suffering from some type of wedding anxiety. Please tell me this is normal? Now let me explain myself... when I said wedding anxiety, I don't mean that I am worried about getting married. I have no doubts about that, I am just becoming overwhelming stressed with all these little details that going into wedding planning. Yes, it has been lots of fun. Really fun actually...up until right now. I think because my countdown till the wedding has gone under 70 days it has become very real that this wedding is happening very soon. Which is beyond exciting, but also very scary. Scary because I tend to be a perfectionist and a worry wart. I get this from my wonderful mother :) So, naturally I am worried over ever little detail that goes into the wedding. I want it all to be perfect. I mean, who doesn't? This day is something I have dreamed about for so long. I just want it to be everything I dreamed about and more. Almost every night for the last two weeks I have either not been able to sleep because my mind is thinking of everything I still have to do or I am having crazy dreams of my wedding day and how nothing is ready. I finally broke down last night. I just don't like this stress! So, my sweet mother sat me down and we made a big list of everything that we still have to do. Even though the list is long, it made me feel so much better to have everything written down. Why don't I make lists more often? We even got to cross something off the list today! Who knew crossing something off a checklist could feel so good? I also keep reminding myself of something Shane told me this past weekend. He told me to stop worring, of course. And he said that all the really matters that day is that we will become husband and wife. The details don't matter. (Sigh)......now that makes me feel good.

Had to show off my pretty little necklace my sister Clarissa gave me for Christmas. I just love it.

A very special year

I thought about writing a big post about how incredible 2010 was for me, but I decided I would rather just show all the highlights of my year through pictures. So here is my 2010 highlights..Sorry for there being SO many pictures, but like I said, it was an incredible year!

January - Trip to the Dallas market with my best friends!

Feb. - We had a snow day 

 Feb.- Sing Song. We were Cinderella this year.

 My camp friends came for Sing Song and were my family for the weekend.

 March - Kojie Formal

 Easter Weekend I went camping with the Haught family. We were at Enchanted Rock here.

 Then we went to Lake Buchanan.

April 10 - Probably the most amazing day of my life thus far. Shane proposed!

 My pass the candle!

 April - GSP formal in Austin.

 May - Kojie Officer retreat

 June - Ranger Game with the Haught's

 June - Trip to South Padre with Kylah and Erin.

 August - Erin gets engaged!!

 August - Joshua Brooks was born! I am an Aunt again for the 4th time!

 Sweet litte Family of four!

 August 25 - I turn 21!

 August - TEAS with my roomies

 September brought lots of Rushes...in lots of crazy outfits.

 and some pie in the face too..

 September - Kojie Officer team at our 70's rush

 September - Bid Night

 Two of my favorite Engagement pictures of me and Shane by TWOPAIR.

October - Kojie Grub. Shane and I were Lil Wayne and Lindsay Lohan

 October - Me and my sweet NuNu's

October - I was on homecoming court! What a fun weekend it was! 

All ten of us that were on Court

 October - Me and my besties. Our last night of pledging ever!

 October - We were so proud of our pumpkin

November - Kojie Retreat

 Thanksgiving - Me and my wonderful family

 December - Shane turns 23!

 Merry Christmas!!

It has been one amazing year and I can only imagine how even more amazing 2011 will be for me. I will be getting married, moving (just to a different house), graduating, getting a big girl job. It will be a year of changes, but I know that it will be a great year!